DENIC
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| Type: | Private, Not-for-profit Cooperative |
| Industry: | Internet, Registrar |
| Founded: | Germany (1996) |
| Headquarters: | DENIC eG, Kaiserstraße 75-77, |
| Employees: | 120 (2010) |
| Website: | http://www.denic.de |
| Key People | |
| Sabine Dolderer, Member-Executive Board Helga Krüger, Member-Executive Board | |
DENIC is responsible for managing the top-level domain .de(Germany). DENIC is a registered cooperative with its head office in Frankfurt am Main[1].
DENIC operates around 14 million domain names[2].
History
- 1996/December DENIC was formed as a Cooperative.
- 1997/July Business operations of DENIC changed from Karlsruhe to Frankfurt.
- 1999/October 1 million .de domains registered.
- 2000/July DENIC members reaches 100.
- 2005 DENIC Submits Bid for Management of .net top-level domain[3].
- 2006/June 10 million .de domains registered.
- 2009/October DENIC launches one- and two-character domains and domains composed exclusively of numerals[4].
Services offered by DENIC
DENIC manages Germany's top-level domain .de. There are around 14 million domain names with .de.